Some retailers are pushing software suppliers away from Amazon's cloud and partners are treading carefully to avoid getting entangled with brand conflicts between large retail customers and cloud providers with diverse business interests.

The two are developing ways to seamlessly use applications in Kubernetes containers in on-premise and Google environments, and to run Nutanix services like disaster recovery natively in the Google Cloud Platform.

The commission has accused Google of illegally favoring its own product ads in search results and damaging other product comparison sites, though Google says that Amazon has done the most harm to competing sites.

XChange 2017 featured dozens of vendors – including Extreme, Ingram Micro, Ruckus Wireless and many others – promoting their automation platforms, data backups, cybersecurity solutions and other offerings. Here are 30 products that stood out from the pack.

CRNtv spoke with Black Duck CMO Bob Canaway about the company's collaboration with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and why DevOps helps it speed up its ability to secure and manage open source code for customers.